Motion Folks’s Social gathering, APP, Imo State chapter, has condemned in sturdy phrases the outrageous killing of two individuals by murderous parts masquerading as officers of the lmo State Environmental Transformation fee, ENTRACO.
The alleged killings have been found by a traumatizing video clip circulating on numerous social media platforms.
The occasion stated it’s deeply shocked and outraged by these recurring incidents of lack of lives of harmless Imo residents occasioned by the alleged recklessness and unchecked actions of ENTRACO officers, which seem to have turn out to be a norm and sample within the state.
Based on the occasion, the most recent incident which occurred at St. Mulumba by Akachi Street, close to First Financial institution in Owerri, serves as a stark reminder of the All Progressives Congress, APC-led authorities’s reckless disregard for human life and the rule of legislation.
It additionally recalled with dismay the earlier incident at Toronto Junction, MCC/Uratta Street, Owerri, the place some individuals misplaced their lives by the hands of the identical ENTRACO workers.
In a press release issued on Monday by APP’s interim state Publicity Secretary, Cajetan Duke, the Social gathering acknowledged that it was appalling that regardless of guarantees of “Shared Prosperity,” the actions of those brokers of presidency had turn out to be synonymous with sharing distress, agony, and even dying in Imo State.
A part of the assertion reads, “it’s disheartening to notice {that a} fee established to make sure environmental cleanliness and orderliness in keeping with the capital metropolis grasp plan has turned itself right into a automobile for all types of felony extortion by intimidation and harassment of economic highway customers and different weak members of society.
“The individuals of Imo State reside in worry, and it’s unacceptable that ENTRACO officers have turn out to be extra infamous than armed bandits, unknown gunmen, and terrorists. We demand an instantaneous halt to those provocative and reckless killings of our individuals. The federal government should take duty for safeguarding its residents and maintain these accountable for these atrocities accountable.
“This entrenched tradition of insensitivity, lack of empathy, high-handedness, impunity, and blatant disregard for human life, which has characterised the actions and operations of ENTRACO, questions the credibility and competence of the present management and administration of the fee.
“We, subsequently, name on Governor Uzodimma to instantly, in one of the best curiosity of Imo residents specifically and highway customers basically, sack the present administration of the fee for gross ineptitude, poor management, and lack of the prerequisite expertise to handle an vital people-oriented and service-driven company of presidency like ENTRACO.
“The Motion Folks’s Social gathering (APP) stands in solidarity with the households of the victims and calls for justice. We name on all well-meaning Imolites to hitch us in condemning these brutal killings and demanding accountability from the Uzodimma led administration within the state.”
The opposition occasion demanded an intensive investigation into the incidents and for these accountable to be delivered to justice, including that the individuals of Imo State deserve higher than to dwell in worry of being killed by these sworn to guard them.
